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#ExpertInsights 1: Voice Archiving Regulatory change can inspire downright terror in many of us. When that happens, the best thing to do is search for insights from experts.

Your workers are 100% remote now… using their personal devices and personal accounts for work. Cybercriminals will capitalize on their shock and fear to cause as much data loss as possible. In this #ExpertInsights episode, we interview Tim Choi, VP of Product Marketing at Proofpoint, about how to protect your people from cyber crimes… remotely. What we talked about:

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. If you’re a hacker, that is. 

Governance, AI, analytics, and regulation — 2020 sure changed a lot. Good data hygiene looks totally different now, as does so much in the regulatory financial services realm.

When we’re looking ahead at 2021 in information governance and regulatory changes, what will define the cybersecurity industry?

When everyone is feeling overwhelmed by taxes and afraid of doing something wrong, that’s when the phishing, smishing, and website impersonation reaches its height. How can we reassure and train our employees about tax-related scams?

We’ve been joined by Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness Training Strategist at Proofpoint, to discuss this year’s State of the Phish (SOTP) Report, where we get an in depth look at user awareness, vulnerability and resilience.

About 85% of threats involve some sort of human interaction, and about 50% of organizations have experienced a successful phishing attack. So, attacks are overwhelmingly focused on people.

Business Email Compromise, or BEC, is a type of scam that utilizes social engineering to trick companies into paying fraudulent invoices or giving up sensitive information that can be used for a future attack.

Fraudsters who perpetrate BEC and various other types of email scams are a serious and continuous threat to businesses today. In 2019, there were 26.2 billion dollars in reported losses from these kinds of malicious malware attacks.